{"id":1613,"date":"2009-12-11T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2009-12-11T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:07:07","slug":"sal-bizzarros-winter-minestrone-vegetarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2009\/12\/sal-bizzarros-winter-minestrone-vegetarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Sal Bizzarro&#039;s Winter Minestrone (vegetarian)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"web-extra\">Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 cloves garlic<\/li>\n<li>1 small onion<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup\u00a0basil and      parsley, combined<\/li>\n<li>1 can crushed tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup olive oil<\/li>\n<li>5 carrots, chopped in small      pieces<\/li>\n<li>4 potatoes, diced<\/li>\n<li>4 stalks celery, sliced in      small pieces<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 pound tubetti pasta<\/li>\n<li>1\/2\u00a0 cup Parmesan cheese<\/li>\n<li>extra parsley for garnish<\/li>\n<li>1 lemon, optional<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take the garlic and onion and chop them in a food processor.\u00a0 Place the basil, parsley, and crushed tomatoes and put into a blender and blend for a minute.\u00a0 Use a deep Teflon frying pan and pour the olive oil into the pan.\u00a0 On a medium high fire, add the garlic and onion to the hot oil and saute for around 2 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0Add the chopped vegetables and let them saute for five minutes.\u00a0Take the blender with the tomatoes and pour into the pan.\u00a0 Simmer for around 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate pot, cook the tubetti in boiling salted water until al dente.\u00a0\u00a0 Drain but leave the tubetti with some of the pasta water in the pot.<\/p>\n<p>Mix the tubetti with the pasta water into the frying pan of vegetables.\u00a0 Let the two cook for around 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Serve in bowls sprinkled with Parmesan cheese and freshly cut parsley.<\/p>\n<p>Notes from Kathy: If you add more of the pasta water it is a very thick soup.\u00a0 However the Italians love a thick minestrone (much different from the Progresso variety).\u00a0 The salt in the pasta water is added at the end.\u00a0 Also, Sal takes a lemon and squeezes it into the mix to give it a special flavor.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients: 4 cloves garlic 1 small onion 1\/4 cup\u00a0basil and parsley, combined 1 can crushed tomatoes 1\/2 cup olive oil 5 carrots, chopped in small pieces 4 potatoes, diced 4 stalks celery, sliced in small pieces 1\/2 pound tubetti pasta 1\/2\u00a0 cup Parmesan cheese extra parsley for garnish 1 lemon, optional Take the garlic and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-november-2009","tag-web-extras"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}